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A+.....this means (guess what) we think it's great. So great it surprised even us.A.....this means it's pretty darn good. A book we'd recommend to just about everyone we know.B.....better than most. Not exactly Shakespeare for kids, though, if you get our drift.C.....mediocre. Like the color beige, it didn't stand out.D.....we didn't like it. There were more bad aspects than good ones.F.....it reeked of badness. We read it over and over when we are in dire need of hysterical laughter.F-.....We're pretty sure Dante had a circle of hell for the people who wrote these...and a lower circle for those who published them.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Mothers' Day Writer Mama Guest Post: Lindsay Eland

(Guest writer-mama # 2, Lindsay Eland, is the author of Scones and Sensibility. I believe this is one of the times where less of an intro is more, so I'll be quiet now and get to her lovely words...)

To all the mothers buried under mounds of laundry and dishes and homework

To all the mothers that kiss their kids good-bye…sending them off to school, to college, to their own families, to war

To all the mothers whose hearts have ached at every scraped knee, every broken heart, every good-bye

To all the mothers who have worried and prayed and stayed up until the car pulls into the driveway…no matter how late the clock struck

To all the mothers who aren’t the same in the mirror as they were before…but who are so much more beautiful and full of life and wonder and love because of having a childTo all the mothers who have a hidden lion underneath their soft skin and gentle touch…a ferocious love that doesn’t go away or diminish as time goes on

To all the mothers who do it all alone—the cooking and cleaning and crying and loving

To all the mothers who have taken children who aren’t their own and sewn them into their hearts foreverTo all the mothers who loved their child enough to give them a better chance

To all the mothers that have cried over the babies that left them too early but were loved a lifetime over

To all the mothers still dreaming dreams

To all the mothers reawakening old dreams

To all the mothers laughing or crying, singing or skipping, reading or sleeping, old or young or in-between…

1 comment:

Thank you so much, Lindsay,for honoring mothers so beautifully in this post! Your words triggered a flood of memories for me: memories of my life with my mother, memories of raising my own children. The joys and the sorrows of motherhood have enriched my life in ways I could never have imagined. I am going to share your post with my mom--even Hallmark couldn't have said it better!

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